Robert M. Price (September 26, 1930 – December 31, 2020) was an American computer scientist and business executive. After graduation from Duke University in 1952, he moved to California and worked as a computer programmer at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and the Convair division of General Dynamics Corporation. He and Mary Hope Walker were married on August 21, 1952. He gained a Master's degree in mathematics from Georgia Tech in 1958. He began his professional career for the Control Data Corporation in 1961 as a mathematician staff specialist. His responsibilities there expanded to software sales and services, international sales, and several executive positions, culminating with serving as president and chief executive officer from 1986 to 1989. He also led the founding in 1985 of the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs. He was interim chairman and CEO of International Multifoods Corporation during 1996–97, now part of Smuckers. After retiring from Control Data, he taught business strategy at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business for 15 years, and also taught at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke. Price was president and CEO of PSV, Inc., offering services in technology commercialization, corporate strategy, and human resource management. Career Price joined Control Data in 1961 as a mathematician staff specialist, became director, international operations, in 1963; group vice president, services, in 1972; and president and chief operating officer (COO) in 1980. Price led Control Data's early expansion into international operations and marketing as well as the strategic move into information and systems integration services. Price succeeded the company's founder, William C. Norris, as chairman of the board and CEO of Control Data Corporation (now Ceridian Corporation). He retired in 1990 after 29 years with Control Data. In 1985 Price led a consortium of corporations and individuals in the founding of the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs (NCSE), for which he served as chairman for many years. The center's mission is to encourage entrepreneurship throughout the non-profit sector, and to help individual non profits create or expand social purpose business ventures. Price served for many years on the boards of the Guthrie Theater, the Minnesota Opera, and the Greater Minneapolis United Way; and was a donor to Santa Fe Opera, the University of Minnesota's Athletic Program and School of Veterinary Medicine, and The Nature Conservancy. Price taught in Duke University's Fuqua School of Business for 15 years and was an adjunct professor in the